Born in the USA : the story of immigration and belonging
(2024)

Nonfiction

Graphic Novel

Call Numbers:
GN/NONFICTION/GOLDSTONE,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Graphic novels GN/NONFICTION/GOLDSTONE,L Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : First Second, [2024]
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

230 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250796530, 1250796539 :, 1250796539, 9781250796530
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Born in the USA, tracks the history of immigration to the United States, highlighting the twists and turns in the nearly three-hundred year old national debate to decide who gets to call themselves a US citizen. Tracks the history of immigration to the United States, revealing how economic interests and political winds have sculpted Americans' thoughts about who belongs in the USA. From black enslavement to Chinese exclusion and the modern-day debate over birthright citizenship, Lawrence Goldstone and James Otis Smith reveal the dissonance between the American Dream and the American Reality

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